That's quite nice, which way does the data entry work, I assume clicking on the "dots" in the graphic changes the code snippet.

Also can it generate a 2-dimensional array for X number of chars?

Doesn't matter what you do, people always want more eh ______Rob

Yeah that's right. Click a dot and the code is updated. The 16x2 only allows 8 custom characters so doing them individually seemed good enough. I had lots of other ideas to enhance it but KISS is working as I focus on the Arduino programming

If / when I upload it I will post a link.

Have struggled with the Arduino IDE :-/ I am designing a replacement for that in my head. Eesh!

ETA: I stalked you over to ozelecforum, see you mentioned netbeans. Also learnt you can embed assembler! weeeee!! My first ever project out of uni was a serial port IVT accessible circular buffer data capture TSR for a POS system, all written in assembler. Good to know.

Am keen on getting into some solar / wind energy stuff, so will be joining ozelec at some stage to get the lowdown there too.

I played with something similar a few weeks back. First for designing custom characters for 1602 lcds, then later for either 1bit or 16bit images for 16bit tft screens. I can post them if anybody has a use for them.

Here's something I threw-together over something to eat for lunch. Tested under Win7, Raspian, Linux Mint - Chrome or Chromium in all cases.

Non-portability is only a draw back if you have to develop on more than one OS platform. Never seen someone in that predicament.

Bzzz. Not quite. What if you only develop on a single one - i.e linux.... What's your email address? I'll send you my photo..

If you don't feel the love for the Arduino IDE like I don't, you may consider and prefer Code::Blocks Arduino Edition. It blows the socks off the official IDE and anything else I've seen to date, to be honest. Eclipse is like using King Kong to catch a mosquito - big, slow and total overkill for such a project. Never mind the fact that C::B is written in C++ - a claim that neither Arduino or Eclipse can make (both Java piggies)